Chapter 10
Creating Databases Using Tables
Packed with more than 16,000 columns and more than 1 million rows, each Excel worksheet has enough space to contain serious amounts of data—so it’s great for creating a database to store information and quickly find the items you need.
In this chapter, you’ll learn to use Excel’s tables to create databases for storing information, sorting it, and filtering it to show the information you need. You’ll also learn how to put Excel’s database functions to work with tables.
Creating Databases in Excel
When you need to store a lot of the same type of information in a worksheet, you can create a database in a table. For example, if you run a business, you can make a database of your customers and their orders. ...
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